My brother called me last night and has the blue screen of death, will not let him into his PC at all. I told him to email me the problem so I can post it here to see if anyone can help. Here it is:
AMD 64 3200+
3 GB Corsair PC3200 XMS Ram (2 1GB, 2 512)
ASUS A8N Motherboard
ATI Radeon 128 MB
Windows XP Media
Problem
Computer has sat idle for about 5 days. As soon as I turned it on about 5 minutes after logging into windows I received a BSOD 0x0000007E and it says that it is dumping physical memory. After about 5 reboots and disabling everything through msconfig, I attempted to run Windows ASR with the XP CD. Tried again and received the BSOD. I then attempted to run a reinstall of window (without formatting) and when it said there was 34 minutes left the computer put up the BSOD. I have not tried to reformat and reinstall because I have some stuff on the hard drive that I want to save. I do have another hard drive on the machine that is partitioned into two. I am concerned that the problem is not a windows issue but rather a hardware issue.
AMD 64 3200+
3 GB Corsair PC3200 XMS Ram (2 1GB, 2 512)
ASUS A8N Motherboard
ATI Radeon 128 MB
Windows XP Media
Problem
Computer has sat idle for about 5 days. As soon as I turned it on about 5 minutes after logging into windows I received a BSOD 0x0000007E and it says that it is dumping physical memory. After about 5 reboots and disabling everything through msconfig, I attempted to run Windows ASR with the XP CD. Tried again and received the BSOD. I then attempted to run a reinstall of window (without formatting) and when it said there was 34 minutes left the computer put up the BSOD. I have not tried to reformat and reinstall because I have some stuff on the hard drive that I want to save. I do have another hard drive on the machine that is partitioned into two. I am concerned that the problem is not a windows issue but rather a hardware issue.